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Marshall Mc Luhan: Eine Biographie (2011)

by Douglas Coupland(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

3608503064 (ISBN13: 9783608503067)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Tropen-Verlag Label von Klett-Cotta

review 1: Marshall McLuhan knows why I love my car... " for the time-frayed the womb-like security of the limousine is beautiful because it promises pneumatic bliss." and “The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.”He also understood Twitter - how it creates an electronic village that can suffer from the same problems of a village - "It certainly contracts the world to village size and creates insatiable village tastes for gossip, rumour, and personal malice."Thanks to Douglas Coupland I have rediscovered Mr. McLuhan, perhaps even discovered him for the first time, as my college introduction looks lame compared to this volume.Mr Coupland would be a great professor, teacher, lecturer. He brings a high leve... morel of understanding of his subject. His style is exciting and interesting. This is the teacher we never had.
review 2: Pointless fact about Marshall McLuhan: he has always been oddly tangled up in my mind with Malcolm McLaren, he of the Sex Pistols and Buffalo Gals. The lingering after-effects of a youthful misunderstanding. Malcolm McLaren, in turn, gets mixed up with Malcolm McDowell.I'm a fan of Douglas Coupland's novels — they're not all masterpieces, but they're always worth reading — and his fascination with media, pop culture and technology made him seem an intriguing person to be writing a biography of McLuhan, based on my vague idea of McLuhan's work.And I think it's true that there's a real meeting of minds there, and this book is quite readable, but I was left wondering if biography was the best form it could have taken. It might have been more interesting to read a book in which Coupland responded directly to the work; i.e. by taking a couple of essays and surrounding them with commentary, annotation and footnotes. A bit of playful fisking.Still, the book served well enough as a short, light, introduction to McLuhan's life. It made me think I ought to pick up one of McLuhan's own books, so it clearly worked on that level. less

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